Personality Psychology Domains Study Set 1

The goal of personality psychology is to understand

Current research in personality psychology focuses mostly on

An understanding of the totality of human personality

To gain an understanding of the complete picture of human personality researchers must

Researchers working in which of the following domains are most interested in stable characteristics that make people different from one another?

All of the following are questions personality psychologists that study the dispositional domain will continue to ask in the future EXCEPT

This approach to personality dispositions suggests that each person has a distinct psychological signature in terms of the specific ______ relationships between traits and dispositions.

Further research using the lexical approach is

Which of the following topics do the authors of your text believe will be a focus of much of the future research in the biological domain of personality?

Research has found that _____ percent of the variation in most of the major personality traits can be attributed to genetic variations.

Future research on genetics and behavior is likely to lead to new discoveries in all of these areas EXCEPT

Researchers investigating personality from the evolutionary perspective will most likely find _____ in the future.

Proponents of the evolutionary perspective on personality will continue to ask which of the following basic questions?

The authors of your textbook believe that in the future evolutionary psychology will

The domain of personality most concerned with unconscious motivation is the _____ domain

Research in modern personality psychology from the perspective of the intrapsychic domain

Much current research in the intrapsychic domain addresses

Recent experimental demonstrations of false memories are

One modern view on the unconscious is that

The metaphor most commonly used within the cognitive/experiential domain to describe human information processing is a